2026 AGENDA
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Registration and Welcome Refreshments
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Chair's Opening Remarks
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Shaping demand in Abu Dhabi: DARB’s evolution
- How recent policy updates are shaping demand and mode shift
- Technology and data improving network efficiency, sustainability and safety
- What smarter, targeted tolls can do for fairer, faster commutes
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Early impacts of variable pricing in Dubai
- Early impacts of variable Salik pricing on congestion and travel behaviour
- Smart pricing and communications that encourage off-peak travel without confusing users
- Lessons from Salik’s evolution for regional cities, including equity and exemption design
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Bahrain's King Fahd Causeway
- The introduction of new technology to monitor speed levels
- How will this new toll road help alleviate traffic congestion and develop tourism in Bahrain?
- Case study - King Fahd Causeway
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Morning networking break
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Panel | Communicating the value of toll roads to the public
- Design a plain-language narrative on safety, time savings and equity
- Use evidence, exemptions and revenue use to build consent
- Counter misinformation with consistent, data-led messaging
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Capital markets and Islamic finance for roads
- When to use sukuk, project bonds or sustainability-linked instruments
- Price risk, FX and tenor for MEA conditions
- Link asset monetisation to customer-first operations and measurable KPIs
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Assessing congestion-charging pathways in Qatar
- Activation pathways for prospective gates and zones
- Investment priorities in urban traffic systems
- Equity levers: caps, exemptions and timing
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Session by TransCore
- Session details TBC
Sponsor
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PechaKucha | Financing infrastructure through toll roads
- How RUC supports maintenance and expansion
- Pathways to environmentally sustainable revenue
- Data privacy guardrails that earn public trust
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Lunch and Networking Break
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Panel | Communicating the value of toll roads to the public
- Design a plain-language narrative on safety, time savings and equity
- Use evidence, exemptions and revenue use to build consent
- Counter misinformation with consistent, data-led messaging
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Toll roads for sustainable mobility in Azerbaijan and wider Caucasus
- Where toll roads support national sustainability goals
- Baku-Guba as a first step: delivery, enforcement and customer experience
- Regional lessons transferable to MENA corridors
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Session by Reason Foundation
- Session details TBC
Sponsor
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Afternoon networking break
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Enforcement that stands up in Zambia
- Structures attracting private capital to roads and transit
- Delivery lessons from the Nairobi Expressway
- Align KPIs with safety, uptime, resilience and customer experience
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AI for dynamic pricing, fraud detection and forecasting
- Optimise time-of-day/location rates with live data
- Detect evasion using explainable AI workflows
- Stand up a lean analytics stack inside the authority
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ADM Morocco: concession performance and refinancing
- Safety, resilience and availability KPIs that drive operator behaviour
- Lifecycle operation and maintenance and capex timing for reliability
- When refinancing creates public value
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Chair's Closing Remarks
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Registration and welcome refreshments
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Chair's opening remarks
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Beyond e-tolls: South Africa’s road funding reset
- Map the policy pathway from the e-tolls switch-off to pilotable RUC options
- Evaluate device approaches for cost, accuracy, fraud-resilience and privacy
- Define governance, equity and communications measures that can build durable public consent and stable funding
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Modernising Egypt’s tolling infrastructure through digitisation, governance and customer experience
- Priorities for digitising toll operations and enforcement
- Contracting and governance for delivery at pace
- Integrating payments for frictionless customer journeys
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Morning networking break
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Tolling systems and road usage in Turkey
- Extensive toll network supporting highway and bridge maintenance
- HGS and OGS electronic systems enable fast cashless toll payments
- Toll fees vary by route distance vehicle class and road type
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Advancing Tanzania’s road network
- Programme status and pipeline outlook
- Funding and PPP options for key corridors
- Building institutional capacity for operations
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Lunch and afternoon networking break
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Panel | Electronic tolling in the Middle East: results, lessons and next steps
- Measure congestion, safety and revenue outcomes in UAE/KSA
- Identify payment and user experience improvements that lift compliance
- Define 2026-27 priorities for expansion and interoperability
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Morning networking break
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Compliance, revenue and reliability in Zimbabwe
- Current initiatives and enforcement approach
- Recent revenue and compliance trends on major highways
- Next steps for reliability and customer experience
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Pathways to implementing Jordan’s first nationwide toll road system
- Governance, device strategy and back-office design
- Cashless tags and account models that reduce delay
- Phased roll-out with clear exemptions and appeals
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PechaKucha | RUC systems: financing, sustainability and data privacy
- Funding models that endure economic cycles
- Emissions and safety metrics that matter
- Privacy-by-design in evidence-grade systems
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Panel | Government pipeline showcase: upcoming tenders and RFPs
- Transparent previews of scopes, KPIs and timelines
- Data rooms, traffic baselines and ESG requirements
- Early market engagement that stays procurement-compliant
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Afternoon networking break
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Digitising Ghana’s toll plazas for throughput, accuracy and transparency
- Deploy ANPR/RFID to cut delays and leakage
- Use maintenance KPIs to sustain uptime
- Ring-fence revenue for targeted upgrades
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Maximising Uganda’s road infrastructure efficiency through user charges
- How RUC funds maintenance reliably
- Navigating legal and operational setbacks
- Kampala-Entebbe Expressway: customer and revenue lessons
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Chair’s closing remarks